Morgann Book

I think we all find each other really fast and we kind of group up.

And they had the opposite experience.

They had parents who did not understand what it was like to look at a page and just feel panic and fear.

So for my life, I knew that just block them out.

do what you want to do.

But I would watch my friends who it's very consuming in that fear.

When you're told constantly you can't do something, you kind of start believing it and it kind of just starts interacting with everything you do in your life.

So I think it really depends on what set of parents you have and the support system that you have within that.

I think at one time they would show, if people were talking about dyslexia, they would show alphabet soup.

And people, I think, assume that we look at a page and the letters start moving.

They don't physically move, but it's the easiest way to explain it to the neurotypical brain.

Letters don't typically just start dancing on the page.

We're not hallucinating them.

But that's the easiest way to explain it typically to someone.

It genuinely feels like in your mind's eye that it's just scribbles.

And I think that's the way to explain it is I can be looking at those letters, but I'm not putting them together.

So for me, I had a teacher who took a ruler and she put it under the lines for me and she would just start moving it.

She was like, okay, we're gonna go line by line.

And it was like, whoa, like the light in my eyes opened up because we started getting rid of all of the mess on the page and I could just see those little in-betweens.

So I think, yeah, I think the way we describe dyslexia and the fact that every dyslexic child, every dyslexic person, like we all have different symptoms.